Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
During the lifespan of M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) there has always been something lacking – timers.
M3 execution procedure was outlined in this previous article.
The execution mentioned in the latter was a one-time-execution, whereas server monitoring requires periodic invocati...
Scaling agile is not simple. The complexity increases not in proportion to the size of the team but at the square of the size of the team. That means a 20 member team project will be 4 times as complex as a 10 member team.
To ensure that complexity does not turn into chaos it is inevi...
Vendor lock-in is one of the strong objections of cloud computing and open source is changing that perception.
HP and Microsoft fall under the category of major enterprise technology providers along with Cisco, IBM, Oracle, SAP and VMWare/EMC. With an eye on projected cloud computing ...
If you talk to the average software user, geospatial or not, about open source software you usually find three camps: Lovers, Haters, and Converters. Let's put these camps in crudely defined boxes:
Open source "Lovers" are the lifers that live, breathe, and have never used anything bu...
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In the first part of our series we described how to use find (and locate) to search for files using their names. Today we are going to review how to utilize find in a less common but very useful way. But first a few words on testing (okay, this might not be necessary for everyone, but ...
While ETL continues to be the predominant data integration technology in use today, the sheer size and complexity of today's information and application systems require new levels of innovation that lower costs, deliver rapid time to value, and put more control into the hands of busine...
With the opening of WANdisco’s uberApps Store, we felt it was a good time to have a chat with David Richards, WANdisco President & CEO.
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TechCrunch reported today that Citrix has acquired Cloud.com for > $200m. This is a great exit for a very talented team at Cloud.com and I’m not surprised at their success. Cloud.com has had great success in the market, especially in the last 12 months. This is both in the service p...
When it comes to having a Linux server hosted in a data center or it is not behind any kind of Firewall or NAT device there are a number of security requirements that need to be addressed. Linux servers generally come with no protection configured by default and depending on the hostin...
At Monitis, we strive to monitor and report high uptime and provide the best user experience for our customers. To achieve this goal, we are preparing a series of performance tuning tips that cover areas including Windows and Linux server performance and Javascript tuning.
From a web ...
Open Ocean is a leading early-stage venture capital company, with a particular emphasis on European start-ups deploying user community or open source business models. Open Ocean was the first major owner in MySQL AB, which was later sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion in 2008. Abov...
I was working with one of our clients on a Salesforce implementation and since they’re very active on Twitter they naturally wanted to take advantage of the Salesforce For Twitter app by ForceDotCom Labs. We decided to incorporate a Twitter Username field into most of their web forms a...
More than half -- 56 percent -- of respondents believe that more than half of software purchases made in the next five years will be open source.
Once viewed in some quarters as a fringe movement and unreliable, open-source software is now a dominant force in the IT industry. It has b...
Mention VMware to anyone in IT and their immediate thought is virtualization. So dominant is the company in this space that the very word VM has a sense of ambiguity about it: does it refer specifically to a vmdk, or another hypervisor image like Xen? As with Kool-Aid and Band-Aid, the...
Since her abduction by her mother last summer, my two-year-old US citizen daughter, who is in ailing health, remains in her abducted country of Syria under the immigration status of "Palestinian Immigrant Worker." Sofia needs to appear every three months before Syrian immigration autho...
Here at Monitis, it’s our ultimate goal to make the life of sysadmins, webmasters and other IT pros easier – especially when it comes to monitoring networks, servers, apps, cloud platforms and other key IT processes.
That’s why, in this post, we’re offering guidance on how you can dep...
This Friday at SCaLE 9x in Los Angeles, CA there will be a special build an open source cloud day teaching users how to use technologies from Cloud.com, OpenStack, Opscode and Zenoss to deploy, configure, manage and monitor infrastructure-as-a-service using open source software.
“Bui...
It's hard to plan any strategy for business and the IT forces that drive it, if the continuity of those services is suspect. Social media and the accelerating uses of mobile devices and networks are only adding more questions to the daunting issues around privacy and access. And, the W...
Larry Ellison let it be known at the recent Oracle OpenWorld (an ironic name if I ever heard one) that he saw nothing wrong with companies using just Oracle solutions across the entire enterprise. Of course, he would think that given that he runs Oracle. But these days, more often than...
"Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta.
"This shift ...
Derek Singleton at SoftwareAdvice.com has written an interesting article entitled Can Open Source ERP Succeed? He brought up some of the hurdles for the adoption of open source ERP software.
Having developed open source ERP and CRM for over five years now, I’d like to ask a diff...
OpenStack Object Storage is an open source software for creating scalable cloud storage solutions. It's open source nature makes it very attractive to service providers. For example, in the recent news (Computer World), Internap is offering a new public cloud storage service that it bu...
Today Russian Prime Minister Putin ordered all federal workers and all governing structures to start moving to Linux and open source software. Someone has convinced Putin that using Linux and open source software saves money. In the long run it may, but for the next several years it’ll...
"I think that marketers like 'cloud computing' because it is devoid of substantive meaning...perhaps the term 'careless computing' would suit it better." -- Richard Stallman
I agree, Chrome OS seems like a very bad, and maybe evil, idea. Although I like the Chrome browser--it doesn'...
For years, everything has been moving to computers. But it hasn’t always been easy.
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Jahia, the premier provider of web content integration software, combining web, document, and portal features, announced new government deployments in the Wyoming Department of Transportation and the Australian Development Gateway. Adoptions by these and other agencies confirm that Jah...
Keith Curtis, author of 'After the Software Wars' has published an Open Letter to the American author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, in which he sings the praises of free software and laments that "Proprietary software and a lack of cooperation among our software scientists has ...
A flashback to IntelliJ IDEA open-sourcing one year ago, plus addition of Android development support to the free IntelliJ IDEA 10 Community Edition.
In short:
* There’s been no drop in sales of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
* A 25% increase in new customers over the same period last year...
"Larry Ellison is borderline bat-shit crazy on a good day," the analyst Rob Enderle is quoted as saying in a piece last week by Sam Gustin - a senior writer at DailyFinance, an AOL Finance & Money site.
Enderle was prompted to utter this remark by speculation that perhaps the Oracle...
One of the advantages Pulse is pushing out to its one million developers is the ability to manage four years of Eclipse platform technologies from a single dashboard, including Eclipse 3.0, also known as Helios.
Getting developers on board. That’s the challenge technologies from Linux...
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Despite some long lines (or queues) waiting to get into sessions, keynotes or lunch resulting in delays reminiscent of trying...
It is said that one image says more than a thousand words. This image illustrates how OpenNebula emphasizes interoperability and portability, recognizing that their users have data-centers composed of different hardware and software components for security, virtualization, storage, an...
OTRS came out with a flurry of news, so we asked OTRS General Manager Paul Salazar in Cupertino, CA, what OTRS is all about.
Why is the OTRS helpdesk a game changer in customer service?
Paul Salazar: OTRS brings ten years of experience to bear in the competitive Help Desk and IT Serv...
OTRS (www.otrs.com), a provider of open source Help Desk and ITIL-compatible IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, just launched the 3.0 beta of its help desk system, featuring a brand new Ajax-powered interface designed to dispatch help tickets 30 percent faster, under the most dema...
Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
“The cloud might be a deal breaker for many software companies, either from a licensing standpoint or because their software is not extensible.”
We sat down with Emmanuel Garcin, Vice President & General Manager of Jahia Inc., in Washington, DC to discuss the open source CMS Cloud off...
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There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra Rackspace Champion's Open Source CloudAppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In op...
